{"id":71051,"date":"2016-07-22T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71051"},"modified":"2016-07-21T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:40:16","slug":"letter-milk-prices-need-to-be-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71051","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Milk prices need to be addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=58690\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58690\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg\" alt=\"letters to the editor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>Recently an area dairy farmer committed suicide due to the horrendously low milk prices that farmers are receiving. He just couldn&#8217;t take it any longer.<\/p>\n<p>This past week my friend&#8217;s son attempted to do the same. They are on the brink of selling their cows, their farm, and his universe. Luckily his mother heard a noise and went to investigate. She found him slumped over the sink. The noise she heard was a plastic cup that he had dropped. She made him throw up and got him to the hospital. The doc said that she probably saved his life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>How many more lives have to be destroyed before our elected officials acknowledge that there is a dairy crisis and step up to the plate to fix it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>People just don&#8217;t get it that a farmer is so connected to his land and his cows that when they are forced to sell out, it is just like a death in the family. Unfortunately, that is just what it is becoming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gretchen Maine, Waterville<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Recently an area dairy farmer committed suicide due to the horrendously low milk prices that farmers are receiving. He just couldn&#8217;t take it any longer. This past week my friend&#8217;s son attempted to do the same. They are on the brink of selling their cows, their farm, and his universe. Luckily his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}